ROUTE Nos.
China Motor Bus Company.
REVISION OF FARES.
Commencing JULY 1st, 1931.
1er
AND
CLASS CLASS
SEOTIONA
1 & 12
Star Ferry
1&12
Pak Hoi Street Argyle Street...
10 cts.
& cts.
15
10
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1 & 12
Sham Shui Po
15 "
10
1 & 12
Pik Hoi Street
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Argyle Street...
10
5
1 & 12
Sham Shui Po
15
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Sham Shui Po
10
Star Ferry
...Pak Hoi Street
10
>>
Argyle Street...
13
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Kowloon Tong
20
Pak Hoi Street
...
Argyle Street...
10
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....Prince Edward Road... 10.,
Kowloon Tong
15
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10
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Yaumati Ferry Argyle Street... Sham Shui Po
16
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Argyle Street... Sham Shui Po
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11
15
27
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Argyle Street...
10
1
Argyle Street...
Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po
15,
10
5
17
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$9.00 $4,00
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ROUTE Nos.
SCALE OF FARES.
Commencing JULY 1st, 1931.
2, 6, 8 & 10 Between Star Ferry
2, 6, 8 & 10
·6, 8, & 10
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6 & 10
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6 & 10
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10
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Money and Markets
AUSTRALIAN GOLD SHIPMENT."
TO MEET TREASURY BILLS IN ENGLAND,
[BRITISH WIRELBES BERVICK]
RUGBY, June 15, "
A Melbourne message states that the Australian Commonwealth Government has decided to intro duco legislation authorising shipment of £5,000,000 in gold to meet Treasury Bills which mature in Lendoh at the end of June.
Д
It is understood that the measure will empower the Treasurer to ship any portion of the gold ro serve, which £15,000,000.
HOW amounts
TRAVEL VIA SIBERIA:
MEAL TICKETS FOR THE JOURNEY.
to
With referencs to certain stato- ments published recently in connec tion with the Trans-Siberian Rail- way, it may be of interest to noto the attached copy of a decree issued by the Central Executive Com mitteo of the Council of People's Commissars in the U.S.S.R., which came into force on March 1.
The meal-ticket bocklets issued by the State Tourist Company are on sale in the Far East at the various offices of Mesara Thos, Cook and Son, Ltd., the cost for the seven day booklet bring G823.10.
The decrer states:-
Persona arriving from abroad for the purpose of temporary re sidence in the U.S.S.R., and bring ing with them foreign currency in any form, or receiving the same through the authorised credit in stitutions of the U.S.S.R., may, if they leave the country within eighteen months from the date of their arrival, take out with them or transmit abroad the amount of foreign currency imported, less the sum regarded as their "minimum living expenses" for the full time of their stay in the U.S.S.R.
This minimum, according to the decision of the People's Commis- sariat of Finance, is fixed for foreigners as follows:-
1. For passengers in transit- Roubles 7.50 per day.
2. For persons residing tempor. arily in the U.S.S.R.-Roubles 10' per day.
In addition to the minimum ox- penses, the cost of the railway fare for travelling through the
Kai Tak Motor Bus Co. (1926), Ltd. U.S.S.R. to the frontier station (or
ROUTE
3
SCALE OF FARES.
Commencing JULY 1st, 1931.
BETWEEN.
Star Ferry Star Ferry Star Forry
Star Ferry Austin Road Austin Boad Austin Road
3 & 4 Kowloon Dock Gato
a&4 Ma Tau Kok Road
4
4.
Yarmati Ferrye
Yapmati Ferry...
Yaumati Ferry...
Yaumati Ferry ...
4. U.S.LU. 4. U. BR, C. U. & R. C
3&4 Me Tau Kok Roser
Star Ferry
AND
1ST CLASS 2ND CLASS
10 cts.
5 cte.
15.
10
10
15
21
Austin Road Kowloon Dock Gate Ma Tau Kok load Kowloon City... Kowloon Dock Gate.... Ma Tau Kok Road Kowloon City
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Kowloon City... Kowloon City... U.S. R. C. Bailey's Yard
Ma Tav Kok Road
Kowloon City
Bailey's Yard
Ma Tau Kok Road- Kowloon City
Kowloon Dock Gato. Austin Road
Monthly Tickets-Adulte... -Studentä
1st July, 1031.
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for 3 Ins
ertions
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10 $9.00
1ST CLEES "ONLY.
The $4,00
| REPULSE BAY HOTEL
Wednesday, 17th June, 1981.
Patrons are notified that No
will
DINNER DANCE ill be held at the above Hote on Wednesday, 17th June 1931
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI "HOTELS, LIMITED.
to the final destination abroad) if the ticket was purchased in the U.S.B.R., is also deducted from the sum imported.
No reduction án respect of "minimum living expenses" is made in the ease of transit pos sengers who purchase beforehand from "Intourist" (the State Tourist Co.) special coupons for meals en routa
Foraons travelling in the U.S.S.I., on tours organised by "Intourist" are also exempt from the deduction for minimum living expenses for the period of these tours."
RUBBER LOWER IN NEW YORK:
CREDIT CONDITIONS. IN:
AMERICA.
DECLINE IN THE TOTAL OF
BROKERS' LOANS,
New York, June 11-The Now York Federal Reserve Bank an nounced to-day that its rediscount
BOOKS and READERS
SOME NEW DETECTIVE NOVELS,
JAWN OF CIRCUMSTANCE By Carl
Clausen. (Lane, 76, ed. not.). Top STOREY MURDER, By Anthony ...”
Berkeley. (Hodder & Stough DANDING DEATH. By Christopher
ton. 7 8d.. net.)
rate remained unphanged at the unprecedentedly low level of 11 per cent, while the Federal Reservò Board in Washington announcca that during the week for which figures have just been tabulated they brokers loan total declined in the amount of G840,000,000
Buah (Heinemann. 78. ed. .net:)
HEROD'S PEAL By Russell Thornd-
ike. (Thornton Butterworth.. 78. 6d. not.)
PARTICULAR MURDER. By David Sharp (Benn, 78. 8d.)
Credit conditions generally were eaty to-day with the call mopoy rate remaining unchanged at 14 per cent. Time money was quoted at one per cent, for 60 days' maley in turities and at 13 per cent. for 90 days' maturities.
RESULT OF BRAZIL REVOLUTION
NEW LAWS OBSTRUCT. IMPORTS OF MACHINERY.
London, June 11--The revolution
the
CRIME IN FACT AND
FICTION::
A Profession's Painful Experience. That eminent phicologist, Profes, or Fiolding, to whom Mr, David Sharp has introduced us already, undergoes in "My Particular Murder" the painful experience of being himself the man for whom though he is, for the murder of the police are looking, innocent
the man found dead in Thavies Inn,
He is not innocent, however, of very dangerous thoughtlessness such as often afflicts professors in
Mr. Clausen's Jaws of Circumfiction-in getting himself into that stance is of that small class of position, and, once in it, making stories which are told from begin. it as difficult as possible to get out. ning to cad in the terms of a cri- The moral of it all-expressed in minal trial writes Mr. E. C. Bent-that light-hearted style which the
Daily Telegraph, I professor maintains throughout We are etorted with the District is, "Next time I find a corpse in Attorney's opening address to the the road I shall call the attention jury in the Court-State of New
of the nearest policeman to it, even York-where young Courad Merrilit it does make me data for a leo. and his sweetheart stand charged ture." with the murder of Jane Crandall; and the verdict ends the novel, It is a tour de force but it is a successful one.
But that would have de. prived us of an excellent story.
TWENTY MURDERERS.
The mystery of the prisoners' true and unanswerable defence-ofMURDER BY PERSONS UNKNOWN." which they refuse to avail them- By H, L. Adam, Calins, 128,
ed. seives-is thoroughly wall kept up.
of
which
;
PIONEER AND PUGILIST.
BET STORMY. By Cameron Blake. Hodder and Stoughon, 78, Od net,
The boy is indeed father of tho man in the case of Malcom Luck. At Eton he was defined by a ma thematical master as “a natural,
master as paradox-a bundle of contradic tions. He is a little feud with tho soft heart of a woman.
He was not really the son of Wilfred Luck, the little goodman grey who had made a fortune in the City and retired to play fortune in the City and retired to
try, working hard at enjoyments play a equira's party in the coun
which he could never thoroughly enjcy. His mother, who came of good Lowland stock, bad had
.tk certain passionate liaison with Malcolm MaLooid, met during ber husband's tenancy of a famous deer forest.
This accounts for Malcolm Lick's rod hair, complex haratter, und capacity for the Gaelic which, as
the lata Noil Munro once discover- ed, is better spoken in Canada) than in the Highlands.
Otherwise, like the introduction: of Eton, it is one of the loose ends" so often found in a first
novel. The other fault of such brave ventures-an excess of "sheer! information--is albc' conspicuous here.
None the loss "Set Stormy" is. a vivid and virile story of a vali- ant youth, who, having missed the Great War, refuses to make ugo of his father's wealth, and lives by the labour of his hands in re mcte places "off the pavement,
The Straight Left
Here is a bock for the would-be in Brazil had led to an alterationcu know it must be there; but Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Adam has
He killa a man, and makes the of the laws which had made the where, and what, is it? American collected and
summarised the import of certain machinery al court scones are upt to be a good known facts about more than 20 sen his citadel of refuge (no per punished; and, in some cases, he fic waters), and eventually ranches most impossible, said Mr. It w deal burlesqued by American wri- murders for which no one has been sonal questions are asked in Faci the wondrous Alaskan wildernesses. Wickham, who presided at the ters-I know not why, for Amori-nasists the reader to guess what the
Thore he becomes the temporary palice have never been able to, meeting of Messrs Fairbaira, Law. can legal process stands in no need
prove. Speaking of the mystery of lover of a beautiful French hall. aan; Combe, Barbour, Limited, of it.
the Sevenoaks Summer-house," where caste, who dies in giving him a Bon. Afterwards, during a. visil This is not done in Jaws of the wife of General Luard WAS textile machine manufacturers, at
Circumstance," Leeds to-day.
Judge, counsel, found dead, he suggests that "it to England, he meets a girl who may very well be that a confics to his head as well as to his witnessca
all are
them nection exists between released heart. But, grudging him to any him to herself, and so he Ands genuine beings, and the point cured patients from Broadmocr mortal woman, the wilderness takes of sentiment on
the and some of our unsolved mys
rest at last. teries"
The twofold love interest, how- story turns is painfully genuine,
Concerning the Reading shop ever, though delicately handled, is murder he writes:Probably the co.
a minor motive in a story which Roger, Sheringham.
murder was committed by one cf communicates the harah zest of life "Top Storey Murder is another those desperate and callous racon the Far West and High North, course crooks to find the equalThe toil and moil of pushing for of those tales of Mr. Berkeley's in of which in sheer human depravity ward the frontiers of civilisation Messrs. Faironien, Lawson.. Combe, Barbour, Limited,
which Roger Sheringham comes you would have to have reccurse is here portrayed from intimato chiefly concerned in manufacturing polica. The murder of a miserly Battersea Bat and the villainis hold in the social under
light-heartedly to the assistance of to the pavements of holl.”
The Croydon poisoning, the mur- machinery for preparing and spin-old woman, apparently for the sake corpse on the Bournemouth cliffstow. The book is an exhilarating. wing flax, hemp and puto,,
epic of the modern wilderness win- nere, and the author's direct and forcible style is as effective as his hero's straight left. It will come as a breath of ozone to the jaded: reader of town-pent tales.
In reporting a loss of nearly £90,000 for the year, Mr, Vickham said that notwithstanding the de pression they had erected and equipped further m 1's in Brazil and had placou additional plant in Chile.
EXCHANGE RATES,
'(DRITISH' WIAKLESS SERVICE]
dre
Rugby, June 15,
124.19) 4.83 18/32 34.94
Bot.
of her hoarded money, looks like are among Mr. Adam's other sub a commonplace crime at the out-jects. He sets forth his facts with admirable conciseness in a book To say, as Holmes used to which will engross the attention of say, that it develops. features of those who are fascinated by the interest would be a serious under most gruesome of mysterics. statement. As for the denouement -reserved most successfully until the reader thinks, wrongly, that the whole story is over-I extend to the author my hearty congratu lations upon it, though my heart bleeds for the unfortunate never mind-whom.
There is real originality in. Mr. Berkeley's rope, and even more in. his string; as for, his thread-of the lightest comedy, running through the story-it is cheerful to the very last line. The book may: not appeal to young men who have the misfortune to be frog-faced.'
Paris New York Brussels Geneva
25.05
Amsterdam
12.082
Milan
02.01
Berlin
20.49
Stockholm
19.18
Copenhagen
18.16]
·Oelo ...
18.10
Vienna
34.004
Prague
1048
:
Helsingfors
1037
Smister.
Madrid Lisbon Athens
Bucharest Rio Buenos Aires: Montevideo Bombay Shanghai
48.23
1101
375
"Dancing Death" is one of those alaister stories in which a member of a house-party is murdered, and
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Hong Kong
3 21/32
1/51 1/2
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one of the survivors must be the criminal.
Mr. Bush does it to admiration; he throws in, indeed, a second. murder, and if you divine the truth about the one, you will not. I think, see through the other.
He uses very artfully the device of presenting, by way of prologue, a few tolling, little separate scones, which you may or may not succend in fitting subsequently into their places in the plot. He writes ex- tremely well: his study of a sudden and maddening disillusionment is so managed as to make one look, June 10 forward to a re-reading of the
story.
totalling 205 lots, compared with 75 lots yesterday. Following are the closing, futures price quota tions for standard No. 1 rubber /-
Month
June 9 June
0.10 July
-0.20
ACTIVE. BUSINESS IN EVIDENCE AT THE DECLINE:
6,70
New York, Juno 10-Further -Aug. deolinos were recorded in the trad-Sept.- ing on the New York rubber mar- kot to-day. At the close the June position was quoted at 0.10. The
6.28
6.20
6.38
6.315
Oct.
'0.45
0.30'
Nov
Dec.
0.43
0.50.
55)
Feb.
6.74
6,63
MAT.
M6171'!
Apr. May
6.90
Tatures prices were corresponding By lower, Trading was exceeding ly active with the contract over for standard No. 1. rubber (Continued ut foot of next columa.)
Mr. Russell Thorndike is expect
ed to be grim, and ho lives up to his reputation in Herod's Peal," But there is very much more init than a feast of the macabre, There is a genuino crime-puzzle centred
Lord Unnor's team of forbid ul ding, bellringers, who travel about the country displaying their. and the surprise which explains the puzzo is a real aspiration
mple and so practica
knowledge, as are the many types of workers and of the wastrele and
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